153 new cas­es of COVID was record­ed by the Min­istry of Health to­day mak­ing it the high­est num­ber ever record­ed in a sin­gle day.

Four health fa­cil­i­ties have been closed for sani­ti­sa­tion af­ter a mem­ber of staff came in­to con­tact with a COVID pos­i­tive case.

The Min­istry of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs has been closed for sani­ti­sa­tion af­ter an em­ploy­ee test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID.

A 39-year-old Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice Con­sta­ble (SRP) from To­ba­go is ex­pect­ed to go be­fore Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trate Vir­tu­al Court, on Thurs­day 29th Oc­to­ber 2020, to an­swer the charge of the Breach of a Quar­an­tine Or­der.

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19 19,896

A vi­ral post claim­ing an el­der­ly cou­ple died from the COVID-19 virus and that their deaths were not record­ed in the COVID-count, has been de­bunked.

The Health Min­istry is re­port­ing 44 more COVID-19 cas­es in Trinidad and To­ba­go, which has pushed the num­ber of ac­tive cas­es up to 828, and the over­all to­tal for this coun­try to 1,007.

There are sev­en ad­di­tion­al COVID-19 cas­es in To­ba­go, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of record­ed cas­es on the is­land to 32, as of Sun­day 23 Au­gust 2020.

The Health Min­istry is con­firm­ing there has been an­oth­er death from COVID-19, in Trinidad and To­ba­go, bring­ing the na­tion­al to­tal to 14 per­sons.

Front-line med­ical work­ers who have been bat­tling the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic over the last six months have be­come just as vul­ner­a­ble as pa­tients to this virus as the coun­try con­tin­ues to record an alarm­ing in­crease in the num­ber of pos­i­tive cas­es.

The med­ical health care sys­tem is burst­ing at its seams as the coun­try's COVID-19 cas­es con­tin­ue to rise on a dai­ly ba­sis.

Busi­ness lead­ers be­lieve that a sec­ond COVID-19 re­lat­ed lock­down could be "dis­as­trous" for T&T. Af­ter los­ing hun­dreds of mil­lions be­tween March to June, Jai Lelad­hars­ingh, co­or­di­na­tor, Con­fed­er­a­tion of Re­gion­al Busi­ness Cham­bers (CR­BC), heads of busi­ness as­so­ci­a­tions and mem­bers are brac­ing for rough days ahead.